View your Joomla Site as a Public User while Set Offline
Sometimes when building a new site or making changes to an existing site, you want to have the site online, yet in an offline mode.…
Author: Robbie Adair
Robbie started her career in corporate training until starting her own custom training and media company almost seventeen years ago. In 2010, she began doing classroom training for OSTraining while running Media A-Team. She is often presenting about various tech topics such as Joomla, Fabrik, Web Development, Social Media, and Augmented Reality. She loves seeing that "ah-ha" moment in peoples eyes in her sessions and workshops. She lives in Houston, Texas, but enjoys all the travel for client work and speaking gigs.
Adjusting Your Joomla! 3.x Session Time for your Users
Session Lifetime By default, Joomla has a 15 minute session time for logged in users, meaning if a user goes inactive for more than 15…
How to Set Up WordPress Multisites
Multisites allow you run multiple websites from just one WordPress installation. Each website can have different users, different themes and different plugins. This is possible…
Using the Drupal Theme Developer Module
There is one module that makes designing for Drupal 7 much, much easier: Theme Developer. You can think of Theme Developer as a Drupal-specific version…
How to Add a Contact Form to Your WordPress Site
Unlike Joomla or Drupal, WordPress doesn’t have a default contact form. However, there are many good options to choose from. We recommend a plugin called…
How to Create Printer-friendly Versions of Drupal Articles
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to add a “Printer-friendly version” button to your Drupal articles. This produces a super-clean version of your article,…
Using WordPress as a Static Website
We teach many different types of software. No matter what we teach, students often arrive with ideas about the sofware. Our job is to convince…
How to Block Spam Comments in WordPress with Akismet
Have you heard people complain that Windows computers get more viruses than Apple computers? There are many reasons for that. One of the most common…
How to Migrate Joomla to WordPress
This tutorial will show you how to migrate a Joomla site to WordPress. We’re going to do this with an out-of-the-box Joomla site with demo…
Drupal Classes Starting in Tampa
OSTraining Drupal classes are coming to Florida. Over the last year we’ve been slowiy expanding up and down the U.S.. We now run classes from…
Drupal 6 and 7: Author and Date Information
There was one small little feature in Drupal 6 that would routinely drive students in our classes mad. It wasn’t a major feature but it…
Drupal 7 Uploading Modules and Themes
In Drupal 6, uploading modules and themes was often troublesome for beginners. They would have to follow a confusing process: Download the files Uncompress them…
$220 of Birthday Presents with Your Joomla Training
It was 12 months ago when we officially launched our online Joomla training program; and since it’s our 1st birthday, we are offering a very…
We’re Teaching at DrupalCon Chicago
We’re happy to announce that we’ll be presenting a pre-conference training session: the Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal, at DrupalCon Chicago next month. The class…
Joomla 1.6 and Drupal 7 Demo Sites
Are you wondering what’s new in Joomla 1.6 and Drupal 7? Well, wonder no longer. We’ve set up demo versions of Release Candidates for both…
Post by Email to Your WordPress Blog
By default WordPress allows you to write posts on your WordPress blog simply by sending an email. However, as the video below makes clear, that…
Placing a Drupal Block Inside a Node
This tutorial will show you how to take a block and place it inside a Drupal node. Often this is done through one of two…
Alphabetical Sorting of Drupal Nodes Using Views
This tutorial is designed to do two things: Show you how to sort Drupal nodes alphabetically Introduce you to the Views module Views is, without…
Node Gallery: Photo Gallery in Drupal
Creating a photo gallery is the same as with most things in Drupal: there are many different ways to reach your goal. In this tutorial…
How to Move a WordPress Site
This tutorial will show you how to move a WordPress site from one folder to another. In our example we’re going to move the WP…